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The House-Museum of late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the Expediency Council, was inaugurated in Tehran in a ceremony attended by several high-ranking Iranian officials.

Several top Iranian officials including First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri, late Imam Khomeini, Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s grandson Hassan Khomeini, Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Ali Afshani, Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani Chairman of Tehran City Council, etc were attending in the ceremony which was held concurrent with birthday of late Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.

The house-museum of 82-year-old statesman with over decades of service for the glory of the Islamic Republic has been established to safeguard his works and thoughts.

Rafsanjani was known as a pragmatic and moderate politician on whose watch major economic reforms and nationwide construction projects were implemented after the end of the devastating Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The distinguished cleric played a central role in efforts that culminated in the end of the eight-year war.